Today is a day to start my day by imaging the person I want to be, then looking for opportunities to be that person.

When I first began my career as a preschool teacher I wanted to speak to children in a positive manner, build their independence and respect who they were as individuals. This took a lot of training I would often struggle to stay in this mindset. I bought myself a pack of cut out bees and thought of negative phrases I found myself saying and wrote out a more positive way I could said that and posted these all over the classroom at my eye level. I also questioned if I who was that day lined up with the kind of teacher I wanted to be. Then I would wrote out how I could have handle that day differently .

Over time I became I believe more inline with the teacher I thought I was. Now to put that same level of work into who I want to be now that I interact more with adults in a day. I can create tools in my mind to be more kind, compassionate and to speak with integrity looking for the positive statements when my fist reaction may be more negative. I can do this, I know I can.

Rosetta Sanders